London Power Cut

asprilla
asprilla Posts: 8,440
edited September 2011 in Commuting chat
Anyone else been affected by the great London Power Cut of 2011? If our building isn't back up by 1 then I'm going to take the long route home. Group ride?
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  • hfidgen
    hfidgen Posts: 340
    O rly?

    All fine in Fulham - though my tube did have issues at Whitechapel this morning due to a power faliure - they got it back and running though.

    And yes I did say tube :(
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  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    Power still up in Chancery Lane area
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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    Asprilla
    Have you checked that someone hasn't just turned the lights off?
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  • Cafewanda
    Cafewanda Posts: 2,788
    Nothing happening in the London/Tower Bridge area :(
  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    Lights are back on now but they were down for 40 minutes. Parts of GIR were down and others weren't. Twitter was reporting outages across large areas. We've still got no sockets working.
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  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,633
    Aldgate East is sadly fine
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  • rubertoe
    rubertoe Posts: 3,994
    Archway/kentishtown no problems - shame!
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  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    It's all over now, but ITV mapped tweets from the areas affected.

    It's a pretty big area. Bet someone got a slap on the wrist.

    http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=204 ... 8,0.265732
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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    Asprilla wrote:
    It's all over now, but ITV mapped tweets from the areas affected.

    It's a pretty big area. Bet someone got a slap on the wrist.

    http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=204 ... 8,0.265732

    Ooo, I was round there for work on Friday.






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  • Pufftmw
    Pufftmw Posts: 1,941
    We're fine but then we have a big F/O generator sitting in the car park with enough power for our whole building, let alone the 3500 sq ft corner we have :roll: Someone "over ordered"...

    But when the local power cuts out, we just carry on regardless :)
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  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    Yeah, very surprised they don't have a UPS here, but then the data centre isn't here anymore so why would anyone need to prevent against power outages and the lost work of hundreds of people who hadn't checked it back in.
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  • bdave262000
    bdave262000 Posts: 270
    Went down for a short while here in Tottenham Court Road.
    Fat lads take longer to stop.
  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    Air conditioning has failed to come back on. It's getting a bit warm round here.
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  • jimmypippa
    jimmypippa Posts: 1,712
    Our UPS is a 2-story flywheel in a vacuum that is spun up from the mains, with a couple of marine diesel generators that have half an hour to kick in.

    Loss of power can be expensive in scrapped production for us.
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  • Drysuitdiver
    Drysuitdiver Posts: 474
    jimmypippa wrote:
    Our UPS is a 2-story flywheel in a vacuum that is spun up from the mains, with a couple of marine diesel generators that have half an hour to kick in.

    Loss of power can be expensive in scrapped production for us.


    Piller ? by anychance. they make the best Rotary UPS systems.
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